You know,
Again,
With so many years training with masters and teaching,
What I've noticed is many of us,
We have a hedge fund manager operating inside,
Especially with the spiritual journey.
So,
Our attitude will be,
Hmm,
I've been meditating for two years and I haven't got any results.
Or,
You know,
Whatever,
Just that kind of thinking.
I should be farther along than I am.
How come I'm not getting my dreams coming true,
You know,
Right away?
I'm on the journey.
I'm meditating.
How come?
How come I'm not getting results?
Well,
You know,
That's the hedge fund manager and the thing is that he's the guy.
He's actually in you.
He's the biggest obstacle because if you think of life and how life develops,
You know,
If you have a love affair,
It takes years and years to have a really deep one.
Or pregnancy,
It's nine months.
I mean,
The mom can't say,
She can't have a hedge fund managerial approach and go,
After a month,
Okay,
Well,
You know,
I'm tired of my stomach muscles relaxing out and I'm like tired of being tired.
So give me this baby right now.
It's just not going to work that way.
So the same with the creator.
We receive from the creator as we deserve,
As we,
You know,
Let life dissolve our egos or we,
You know,
Dissolve our egos through a meditation practice.
We watch our egos dissolve because actually we don't dissolve our egos.
We turn to the creator and the creator energy will dissolve our egos.
So the hedge fund manager is just the ego.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean,
The sad thing is,
It's so strong in many of us,
You know,
Especially in the West.
I mean,
You think of our culture,
We're taught to exploit mother nature,
Right?
We're not taught to love her.
So this is what we do when we,
On the journey,
When we go to the creator inside,
We're a little contaminated with many of us,
Our attitudes are a little contaminated by this kind of exploitive approach.
It's sort of like,
Okay,
Creator,
Give it to me on my timetable.
And the thing is,
And the truth of it is you're not even real in the sense of it's only your soul that's eternal.
You're just a temporary figure that's going to die,
You know,
And you're just here to learn some lessons that have been set up by the creator in your soul.
Yeah.
So what works is a kind of belief in yourself,
But a humility to be humble,
You know,
You know,
Humble people are actually really attractive.
I'm not talking about the false humility of people who are just,
You know,
Scratching their knuckles on the concrete.
No,
I'm talking about real humility,
Like a child,
A child knows that he or she has a lot to learn.
So she's,
He or she will have an open heart and an open attitude,
You know,
Because there's a lot to learn.
There's a lot to learn for any adult and any spiritual seeker.
Okay.
Just do your best.
It will be good enough.
And don't be too hard on yourself because,
You know,
We're in this era where most of us are lumbering under these huge egos that we have to learn to let go of.
It takes time.
Okay.
Bless your hearts.